DreamScene Arrives on Vista Ultimate Desktops
DreamScene Arrives on Vista Ultimate Desktops
Posted 09/26/2007 at 10:58am
| by Mark Soper
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DreamScene, the newest Windows Vista Ultimate Extra, finally made its appearance yesterday. DreamScene's been available in beta since February 2007, but it's now available in its production form. Windows Vista Ultimate users can download it via Windows Update.
What Is DreamScene?
DreamScene enables you to place full-motion video as wallpaper on your Windows Vista Ultimate desktop. After installing DreamScene, access it via the Desktop Background section of Control Panel's Personalization menu. Initial DreamScene videos include vid1337 (an animated version of the default Windows Vista Ultimate wallpaper), vid8897 (thistles blowing in a field), vid8899 (water rushing over rocks), and vid9899 (a computer-generated wall of fire). If your graphics adapter is capable of running Windows Aero comfortably (a Windows Experience Index of 3.0 or greater), DreamScene will work very nicely for you.
Getting More Out of DreamScene
Stardock Corporation's Dream WinCustomize website offers user-created Dreams and free addons for DreamScene:
- Deskscapes adds support for dynamically generated 3D wallpapers and changes based on triggers.
- Dream Maker is a DreamScene content creation program.
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UnlnvlslblE
September 27, 2007 at 6:19am
Any word on DX10 content? It would be cool to put the 8800s to work.
Been using it since day one and damn has it been buggy and crashy. I hope this update fixes it.
dcrail
September 26, 2007 at 8:57pm
What!?!? A Microsoft product that has bugs? Right out of Beta? That's never happened!
Marcus_Soperus
September 26, 2007 at 1:25pm
To fix problems with MPEGs and DreamScene, try the free Dream Maker program. It looks as if you can use it to reprocess an MPEG to make it work better with DreamScene.
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It's amazing how illogical a business built on binary logic can be.
Sonickid101
September 26, 2007 at 12:31pm
On the bright side it does'nt crash as much as it used to. I.E. all the time.
Drunken Hero
September 26, 2007 at 12:30pm
Everytime I select a mpeg trough dreamscene, I get a "Windows host process (Rundll32) has stopped working" does Microsoft intentionally put out software before its ready?
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